Sacituzumab Govitecan (SG) is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) comprised of an anti-Trop-2 IgG1 molecule conjugated to SN-38, the active metabolite of irinotecan, via a pH-sensitive hydrolysable linker. As a result of recent Canadian funding for SG in advanced hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), experience with using SG and managing adverse events (AEs) has grown. This review presents a summary of evidence and adverse event recommendations derived from Canadian experience, with SG use in metastatic TNBC for extrapolation and guidance in all indicated settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn unbiased phosphoproteomic method was used to identify biomaterial-associated changes in the phosphorylation patterns of macrophage-like cells. The phosphorylation differences between differentiated THP1 (dTHP1) cells treated for 10, 20, or 30 min with a vascular regenerative methacrylic acid (MAA) copolymer or a control methyl methacrylate (MM) copolymer were determined by MS. There were 1,470 peptides (corresponding to 729 proteins) that were differentially phosphorylated in dTHP1 cells treated with the two materials with a greater cellular response to MAA treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn diabetic patients the development of chronic non-healing wounds is a common complication. A methacrylic acid-based biomaterial is a vascular regenerative material that enhances diabetic healing without the use of cells or growth factors. The bioactive nature of this material is thought to be associated with its anionic charge or surface chemistry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdding bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (bmMSCs) to endothelialized collagen gel modules resulted in mature vessel formation, presumably caused in part by the observed display of pericyte-like behavior for the transplanted GFP(+) bmMSCs. A previous study determined that rat aortic endothelial cells (RAECs) delivered on the surface of small (∼0.8 mm long×0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModular tissue engineering is a means of building functional, vascularized tissues using small (∼1 mm long×0.5 mm diameter) components. While this approach is being explored for its utility in adipose and cardiac tissue engineering and in islet transplantation, the initial question in this study was to assess the fate of the endothelial cells (EC) after transplantation delivered on the surface of modules, without an embedded cell.
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